Creating a good custom story

[Adny]

I must have missed your custom stories. All of this advice, or guidelines rather, must spring from extensive experience. But stepping away from the ironic douchiness I believe advice is always something good, it's just that (mostly on this forum) sometimes it comes from people with zero experience and no work to show.

People have a lot of ideas, but no will to complete them. That is where the true problem lies. It's always easier thinking that it's simply a mindset, or an easy fix to a problem. Creating something truly valuable is hard both workwise and "thinking wise". It's just that people "forget" that you need to work alot for something good.

Get good. Please. I browse the developement section everyday in hopes for something truly great or inspiring. What it comes down to is that you have to love the process and not only the goal. People expect fame and appreciation for what they create and that becomes the source of joy in creating something, rather than the creating itself.

For the record, I have at least 5 full stories (about 10 maps each) that have never been released. I feel that by the time I'm done with them, I look back to the first few levels and realize how terrible they are based on how much I've learned.

I am a perfectionist, therefore I will not be satisfied until my own mapping/scripting rivals that of the original game (at the moment, my mapping is pretty close, but my scripting will take some work D Even in my latest projects I feel like scrapping the first 1-3 levels because they're not 100% perfect.